{"id":813,"date":"2005-12-06T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2005\/12\/06\/house-rules-and-manual-for-109th-congress-now-available\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:37:40","slug":"house-rules-and-manual-for-109th-congress-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2005\/12\/06\/house-rules-and-manual-for-109th-congress-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"House Rules and Manual for 109th Congress Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"font-style: italic\">House Rules and Manual<\/span> for the 109th Congress is now available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/\">Government Printing Office<\/a> on GPO Access:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpoaccess.gov\/hrm\/browse_109.html\">http:\/\/www.gpoaccess.gov\/hrm\/browse_109.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the press release:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <span style=\"font-style: italic\">House Rules and Manual<\/span> is published by the the House Parliamentarian&#8217;s Office. This document is formally entitled <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Constitution, Jefferson&#8217;s Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives<\/span> and contains the fundamental source material for parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Constitution of the United States;<\/li>\n<li>applicable provisions of Jefferson&#8217;s Manual;<\/li>\n<li>rules of the House;<\/li>\n<li>provisions of law and resolutions having the force of rules of the House; and<\/li>\n<li>pertinent decisions of the Speakers and other presiding officers of the House and Committee of the Whole interpreting the rules and other procedural authority used in the House of Representatives.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The complete document is very large (1400+ pages), so the GPO made each chapter a separate file, viewable in HTML or PDF.<\/p>\n<p>Previous editions (back the 105th Congress) are also available on the site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:gray\">Posted by Tami Smith to <a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/news\/govdocs\/2005\/12\/house-rules-and-manual-for-109th.html\">gov docs<\/a> at 12\/06\/2005 10:37:00 AM<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Rules and Manual for the 109th Congress is now available from the Government Printing Office on GPO Access: http:\/\/www.gpoaccess.gov\/hrm\/browse_109.html From the press release: &#8220;The House Rules and Manual is published by the the House Parliamentarian&#8217;s Office. This document <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2005\/12\/06\/house-rules-and-manual-for-109th-congress-now-available\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  House Rules and Manual for 109th Congress Now Available<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}